Mainland Angels

Mainland Angels is a New Zealand-based angel investment group that facilitates connections between potential investors and local founders seeking investment. Their members are often angel investors looking to diversify their portfolios by investing in regional businesses with significant growth opportunities. A large portion of their members are focused on elevating regional businesses and want to see their region thrive. Their investment accelerates startup growth and enables them to provide startups with invaluable knowledge, experience, and networks.

Operating across the Canterbury, Otago, and Southland regions, Mainland Angels manages the overall investment process to bring together investors and increase the scale of the investment, while offering investors smaller minimum investments to make angel investing more accessible to a new generation of investors. They are actively looking for great startups and entrepreneurs in New Zealand, with a particular emphasis on the South Island. They are supported by key accelerators in the south, including Startup Dunedin Trust, COIN South, Startup Queenstown Lakes, and the Ministry of Awesome.

Mainland Angels is a leading angel investor network supporting South Island startups. By collaborating across their regions, they diversify their founder and investor talent pool, avoid duplication, and create efficiencies in capital-raising to ensure founders are spending time on their business and not on arduous capital raising. It also allows them to manage risk better by having greater and more diversified resources in the due diligence process.